Talk Radio Host Gets On-Air Reprimand For Being Critical Of Obama
You’ll note, however, that nobody is leveling the claim of being inaccurate. Just not “objective.”
“A talk-radio host was reprimanded on air by his executive producer Wednesday after he received complaints about his coverage of Sen. Barack Obama.
KDKA-AM 1020 host Kevin Miller was silenced when executive producer P.J. Kumanchik read a CBS statement accusing Miller of being unfairly biased against Obama.
‘We want to apologize to listeners who have found your show offensive,’ Kumanchik said to Miller on the air.Kumanchik referenced phone calls and e-mails from listeners who criticized Miller for his statements about Obama.
In a move considered by some to encourage ‘fairness,’ he also offered Obama a three-hour spot on the Pittsburgh, Penn., station in place of Miller’s regularly scheduled noon to 3 p.m. program.
The executive producer of the CBS affiliate said Miller, a Marconi Award nominee and former Army Reserve journalist, had featured guests who were not objective when reporting information about Obama.
Since when is it a requirement that anyone be objective when talking about politics? Facts are, after all, facts. If Mr. Miller was being inaccurate, if he was broadcasting things that are not true, on his radio show then I’d be all for reprimanding him. But as far as we know, no such charges have been made.
This, folks, is what the Fairness Doctrine would look like if it ever did get implemented by the left. If you’re overly critical of someone or some thing, if you don’t balance out all your criticism with positives, you won’t get to have a say. And their excuse will be that you’re not “objective.”
